1888 Map from the archives of
SUNY at Stony Brook, courtesy of David Morrison

1888 Hyde Map Turntable
Collection: Stony Brook, NY

Emery Map: W. Babylon
: Great East Neck Road Crossing.
<1906 MP34-35
The CRR of LI crossed the road AND the LIRR tracks at grade on their
trek to the Babylon Town Dock.
Info and collection: Dave Keller

MP36-37 1925

Sanborn Deer Park Ave 9/1928

Sanborn Cooper Ave 9/1928

Babylon Track Capacities
MP 54 Cars - c.1950

Emery map MP 34-35 1958
Collection and Info: Dave Keller

Emery map MP 35-36 1958
Collection: Dave Keller

New MP-75 MUs crossing Carll's Creek on the temporary trackage during the
grade crossing elimination. Fill for new embankment can be seen in
background. 9/1963
Photo/Archive: Jim Gillin

1925 BN Cabin (c. 1917 to 1925) located at west
end of
Babylon
station platform, north side. View looking northwest. James V.
Osborne photo, Dave Keller archive

BN cabin, located on the north
side of the west end of the westbound platform of
Babylon
station. In service c. 1917 (Does not appear in the ETT of 1916.
No ETT of 1917 available to check. Does appear in ETT of 1918) and out
of service with opening of BJ tower east of the station sometime after May,
1925. This view is from a negative shot of the first MU train to
arrive at
Babylon
and the town’s pending celebration with thousands of people in attendance.
Chester Kelting photo, David M. Morrison Collection, Dave Keller archive.

The
temporary station, which is visible to the right of this image and at which
platform the RDC s are stopped, was placed in service on 4/6/63.

It was
taken out of service on 9/9/64 and razed thereafter, with the new, elevated
structure being placed in service that day (9/9/64).

This image
shows not only the old tracks and station platforms at the left but the
temporary facilities at the right. The old stuff is still there, so
construction has not yet begun, so this image would have to have been taken
shortly after the temporary facilities opened.

There are
no leaves on the trees, but MAY have been photographed IN April of 1963
because we've had some pretty cold April's on LI that I can recall.

Also, if
this were shot during the winter of 1963-64, that means that the old station
and tracks were STILL IN PLACE and not touched for demolition from April
until year's end. That would be a VERY long time to do nothing to the
area then completing everything in 8 months.

I say 8
months because I have photos of the temporary station with the new, elevated
station in place behind it, shot in August of 1964. (see below) Dave Keller

This view is looking southeast
from the north side of the tracks. 1963
Archive: Dave Keller

What we have in the foreground is the old station high-level platforms with
old pedestrian crossover in the background.

The temporary station facilities are
adjacent to this, just south, running right through where the old depot
building was once located.

In the middle-to-right background you will
see platform shelters. You will also see a second, independent,
pedestrian crossover.

The red platform shelters are the
temporary station at Babylon in 8/1964. (New, elevated station partially
visible in left background.)

Those shelters on those platforms with
THAT pedestrian crossover are the temporary station facilities with a
temporary ticket office built on the south side of the tracks.
Once the temporary tracks and station/platforms were established and
officially placed into service, the LIRR then began to demolish ALL you see
in the foreground, and the elevation took place on the site of this earlier
track location. The temporary tracks were very close to the main.

Research: Dave Keller, LIRR Historian

MU3-car Mail Express westbound under signal bridge leaving Babylon Station
09/19/1950
The train’s lead car is an RPO/REA car. The middle car is a passenger/baggage/RPO car and at the rear is a combine car. Edward Hermanns photo, Dave Keller archive